This is the first time that I’ve tried scratch building a structure and I’m finding it is a lot more fun than wiring the Engine House module. I plan on adding some detail to the interior and making the roof removable. Here is what it looks like at this point.

Scratch Building City Point Car Repair Shed

In order to generate the drawings, I cropped, scaled and de-skewed a digital image of the car repair shed in photoshop. I then imported into Illustrator and drew what I think the framing should be like over the top of the image. I then printed without the original image.

Car Repair Shed

There are several surviving historic photos of the engine house, a warehouse and a storage shed under construction. Though I’m familiar with modern wood frame construction, these buildings were put together somewhat differently. Here is a crop of a photo of a storage shed under that is under construction.

City Point Storehouse Under Construction